SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A court on Tuesday recognized the state’s liability to compensate humidifier disinfectant victims or their bereaved families for the first time in South Korea. The Seoul High Court overturned a lower court’s verdict that the state is not responsible for compensation to the victims of toxic humidifier sterilizer products, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s ruling that ordered humidifier disinfectant manufacturers to pay compensation to a victim of the chemical. The civil litigation began in February 2015, when the victim, surnamed Kim, who used a humidifier sanitizer product made and sold by Oxy Reckitt Benckiser [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 14,000 people were estimated to have died from a deadly humidifier sanitizer scandal that broke out in 2011, a figure that is roughly 10 times bigger than previously reported, a study showed Monday. The number of adults who died after being diagnosed as patients of relevant diseases, such [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Environment said Monday it will proclaim a revision of the current law regulating humidifier sterilizers this week, seeking to expand the scope of diseases caused by the use of the chemical products and facilitate victims’ lawsuits against their manufacturers. A revision of the Special Act on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The majority of victims in a deadly humidifier sanitizer scandal that broke out in 2011 are still suffering from various physical and mental illnesses, a report showed Tuesday. Around 83 percent of the respondents said they suffer from lung-related illnesses, while 71 percent and 56.6 percent are suffering from [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The chief of a local humidifier disinfectant manufacturer responsible for the nation’s worst consumer chemical disaster that broke out in 2011 triggered a controversy Wednesday by arguing that the tragedy was caused by insufficient government supervision. Park Dong-suk, CEO of Oxy Reckitt Benckiser (RB Korea), a wholly owned unit [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC said Thursday it will shut down its plant in South Korea this month as its sales were hit hard by the humidifier sterilizer case that took over 100 lives. Oxy Reckitt Benckiser (or RB Korea), a wholly owned unit of the British consumer giant, will [...]